cinema

«cinema» in Mova's school dictionary: a building where people watch films on a big screen — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cinema, cinemas; the cinema)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cinema is a building where people watch films on a big screen. tree →

2) «The cinema» or «the movies» can mean going to see a film. tree →

3) Cinema is also the art of making films. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: seats in rows (rows × seats), tickets and prices, films that start and end at times (end time = start + length); popcorn prices. In everyday life: going to the cinema with friends, birthday cinema trips, film ratings for ages. Phrases: «go to the cinema», «at the cinema», «cinema ticket».

examples

• The cinema has 15 rows of 20 seats. tree →
• A ticket costs 7 dollars. tree →
• The film starts at 4 pm and lasts 2 hours. tree →
• How many tickets were sold? tree →
• We went to the cinema for my birthday. tree →
• Please turn off your phone in the cinema. tree →
• In the USA a cinema is called a movie theater. tree →
• The cinema was full for the new film. tree →

note

«Cinema» (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand), «movie theater» (USA). Maths: seats in rows give multiplication; times give an end time. Trap: a film of 1 hour 45 minutes from 4:30 pm ends at 6:15 pm, not 5:75.

In the corpora

• Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.
• Some are advice for parents; some are the law, and a cinema can refuse to let you in.
• Parents decide what children watch at home, and cinemas must follow the age rules.
• Cinemas earn a big part of their money from snacks, because much of the ticket money goes to the film company.
• A film is many still pictures, called frames, shown quickly, traditionally 24 every second in the cinema.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cinema» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.